Parts Of U.S. Virgin Islands Still Without Power Weeks After Hurricanes Maria And Irma

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Published October 16, 2017 at 12:52 PM EDT

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This is a aerial view of St. Croix from Air Force 2, as Vice President Mike Pence, joined by his wife Karen Pence and Virgin Islands Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-At Large, fly in to Henry E. Rohlsen Airport in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (Ken Thomas/AP)

Many residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands are still living without power or running water almost six weeks after the first of two back-to-back Category 5 hurricanes blew through.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with the Rev. Jeff Neevel, of the St. Thomas Reform Church, about conditions there.